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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 14.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2021 Dec 1;58(6):2315–2336. doi: 10.1215/00703370-9491801

Table 5.

Uncertainty in Residual Estimate of Unauthorized Foreign-Born Population Due to Uncertainty in Underlying Assumptions (Standard Deviation Across 1,000 Iterations)

Uncertainty in Residual Estimate Due To Uncertainty in:
Year Residual Estimate Coverage Error Emigration Mortality All Factors
2005 11,713 1,778 1,342 11 2,200
2006 12,070 1,839 1,418 12 2,295
2007 12,220 1,887 1,495 13 2,380
2008 11,080 1,114 1,474 13 1,745
2009 10,591  782 1,516 14 1,568
2010 10,254  498 1,553 15 1,472
2011 10,229  484 1,632 16 1,548
2012 10,249  473 1,709 17 1,626
2013 10,301  458 1,785 18 1,702
2014 10,461  455 1,860 19 1,783
2015 10,577  445 1,933 20 1,861
2016 10,717  480 2,024 22 1,970
2017 10,800  515 2,140 23 2,100
2018 10,773  507 2,271 25 2,232

Note: Residual estimates are averages of 1,000 iterations wherein assumptions for coverage error, emigration, and mortality are randomly drawn from postulated distributions; the estimate for 2018 is 10.8 million. However, when assumptions are fixed at their mean levels, the estimate for 2018 is 11 million.